Entries by Alexandra Kyrke-Smith

As the result of the General Election started to emerge, my social media news feeds were inundated with posts, slamming the electorate for the party they had chosen. Disappointment in the result is understandable from all those who voted for opposition parties, and of course social media is a legitimate...

Broadcasting rights are a hot topic: recently we've heard that the Six Nations will consider offers from Pay to View television operators for its next UK broadcast rights deal, we've learned that Sky will broadcast The Open Championships from 2017, and then of course there's the Sky/BT £5 billion mega-deal...

As a nation, we are unhealthy. We could take our pick from hundreds of statistics to illustrate this: that one in three adults in the UK have high blood pressure, that only 1 in 10 children eats the recommended '5 a day', that a quarter of adults in the UK...

A government report entitled 'Women and Sport' was published last month highlighting the discrepancy in participation rates in sport between men and women, across all age groups. The report explores a plethora of possible explanations for this, many of them deep-rooted and all of them interlinked. A major...

Last year, headlines were made when some 4,500 former NFL players, many of whom had suffered with mental health or cognitive problems, sued the league over head injuries sustained whilst playing. The NFL lawsuit was met with scepticism in some quarters. Surely the risk of injury is something that, as...

Andy Murray's appointment of Amelie Mauresmo as his coach last week made waves in the sporting world. A male player? A female coach? It seemed to come as a surprise to many that a player of Murray's calibre believes that a woman can bring expertise to his game. As a...